Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motoring alone on a country road at night. Out upon the road ahead of you steps a man in old overalls and a sheepskin coat, with a flashlight and a gun. He signals, "Halt...
...strokes on Carnegie Lake the Columbia crew got a quarter of a length ahead of Princeton and Pennsylvania and increased its lead as the three boats, black figurines, moved between green banks covered with shouting people, over water turned to a fire by the sunset, until at the finish Columbia was two and a half lengths ahead of Penn with Princeton back in the ruck...
...balloting found Smith and Baker far ahead of the rest of the wide field. On the sixth ballot Baker gained the lead, but lost it on the seventh. After this ballot a conference of state chairmen was held, and two ballots later the deadlock was broken as state after state went for Walsh...
Through choppy Mediterranean seas dashed the British battleships Warspite and Valiant, last week, steaming full speed ahead from the Empire naval base at Malta toward the Egyptian ports of Alexandria and Port Said. Beside the ponderous battleships, paced three swift cruisers, keen Empire dogs of war. Smoke belched. Spume flew. Meanwhile a good old fashioned ultimatum was being cabled by the potent Government of His Britannic Majesty to the puny Egyptian Cabinet of puppet King Fuad...
...matched a Union tally early in the period and the score remained one all until the last few minutes when the visitors opened up on the attack and went into the lead. In the last half the superior teamwork and steadiness of the Union players enabled them to pull ahead steadily until...